JIT is not register based I thought and that would be the reason for no JIT on chip process as the ANdorid VM is register based not stack based.
There was a whole architecture dicsussion by Google when Android was first was announced about this.. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]>wrote: > > Aha, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I very well understand that Android > runs Dalvik, and not Java bytecode, and from what I read on the net, > this was done to avoid some licensing issues/arguments with Sun. > > Here I'll put my question as bluntly as possible: > > If Google were not forced by Sun because of WHATEVER to NOT run java > bytecode on the Android, would it be WAY WAY faster for games, apps, > and the Android stack on top of Linux, which is also a Dalvik > bytecode, because of the java hardware acceleration? > > If the answer is yes, I then expect to hear what was that Google > couldn't agree on with Sun (although I don't expect to hear that from > Google Android engineers, but like I've said many times, Google is > f...@#ing DEAF, and you, Android engineers, are the only people who > actually listen to us)? > > I'm also interested to understand whether Google is planning to team > with hardware manufacturers (such as Qualcomm) and help them build > Dalvik hardware acceleration into future devices, so that Android > becomes faster and better? > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It doesn't matter whether there's a chip with Java hardware > > acceleration in the G1 because Android does not use Java bytecode, but > > Dalvik bytecode. > > > > -- > > Romain Guy > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
